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I have set up hmailserver, but now when I go to Thunderbird I am able to connect it to the email but when I click get messages it gives me an error saying "Connection to server mail.hmailserver.com timed out".

There's something wrong with the firewall settings or it could be port 25 incoming is blocked by the isp.

I have one question, though. What's up with the gibberish host name dc-64a3b96623ee.sbond.ml? Why not just sbond.ml? Or mail.sbond.ml? It doesn't hurt anything but it could make setting up clients and other tasks more prone to typos and unnecessary troubleshooting.

I have been reading a few of these. One of the tricks was to forward 24-26 or 1-1000, but sadly they don't work. I'll try searching some more to see if someone has a solution that works for me as well.

I found some guy saying he has it set to a port which relays to hmailserver which then converts it back to port 25.

You can pay for a relay service

or you could upgrade your internet connection to business class that allows for you to host your own servers

or you could host your mail with gmail or office365 (for a fee)

Depends on why you wanted to host a mail server really.

To me the extra $10 / $20 per month to go from a home internet connection to a business class internet with static IP address was well worth the money when I made that decision some 10 years ago. It also means that google doesn't get read all of my mail.

But If you rather pay someone else, paying for a relay server (hope that you can trust them!!) is probably the cheapest option, depending on your mail volume.

Just 'cause I link to a page and say little else doesn't mean I am not being nice.
https://www.hmailserver.com/documentation

I found some guy saying he has it set to a port which relays to hmailserver which then converts it back to port 25.

You can pay for a relay service

or you could upgrade your internet connection to business class that allows for you to host your own servers

or you could host your mail with gmail or office365 (for a fee)

Depends on why you wanted to host a mail server really.

To me the extra $10 / $20 per month to go from a home internet connection to a business class internet with static IP address was well worth the money when I made that decision some 10 years ago. It also means that google doesn't get read all of my mail.

But If you rather pay someone else, paying for a relay server (hope that you can trust them!!) is probably the cheapest option, depending on your mail volume.

I'll look into getting business class internet. It would probably help a lot since I do host quite a bit of things at some points of the day.